A hypothetical question for anyone who supports the use of drones/summary executions

[sabrina 1]

31. Well, we've been killing and torturing people for over ten years now, and still we are told,

we are 'not safe'. That seems like a total failed policy. As one anonymous State Dept official said after the slaugher of 24 Pakistani soldiers recently 'we cannot kill our way out of this'.

You are aware I'm sure that claiming the right to kill other people on a daily basis for 'our own safety' is not new. History is filled with Empires who made this claim, none of which are still in existence nor did they last very long.

Are you seriously making the claim that the only way we can be 'safe' is to keep on killing and torturing and bombing and destroying other nations? Didn't someone else once think they could 'kill their way to total world dominence' and didn't we condemn them for that? Not to mention, that as many as they killed, they did not succeed.

Are we so devoid of intelligence now that our only recourse is to kill our way to complete safety? What will we do about traffic accidents that kill more Americans than any terrorist could dream of, or deaths because of a lack of access to Health Care. Over half a million Americans have died as a result of no HC since 9/11.

What is the goal of all this killing by drone? Do you know? Is there even some kind of assessment as to when it will be 'safe' to stop killing people? And are Americans who die for lack f oHC any less dead than the remote chance of dying by terror attack? Do we really care about dead Americans, and if so, why did we allow all those people to die when we could have saved them had we spent all that war money on Americans who actually were in danger of dying?